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...with the spending bills heading for Clinton's desk, the quiet is ending. After months of searching for issues that will cut their way, battered Democrats have awakened to the political advantage of forming a Praetorian Guard around Mother Earth. Though Clinton has been accused of being just pale green, especially after he retreated in 1993 from imposing new grazing fees on federal lands, the White House has got the message. Al Gore, a best-selling conservationist, two weeks ago denounced Republicans on the Hill for a "jihad against the environment'' that had allowed lobbyists from "the biggest polluters...
...human rights, which, according to a recent study by the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch, are in a "perilous state." The security forces are enormous, made up of the army, the regular police, the border police, the marine police, the regular presidential guard (known as Force 17), the alite praetorian guard, the civil defense force, military intelligence, general intelligence and the so-called preventive security apparatus. Suspects have been tried late at night, without the knowledge of family members or lawyers. So far, two individuals have died in jail, their bodies bearing signs of torture. Authorities have curtailed the free...
According to Ion Pacepa, a Rumanian lieutenant general who defected to the U.S. in 1978, the Securitate under Ceausescu had various functions. One was to serve as a kind of Praetorian Guard for members of the Communist Party's Central Committee and specifically the Ceausescu family. Many of the 75,000 or so troops were recruited from orphanages and raised to regard their job with a loyalty bordering on fanaticism. Other uniformed crack troops, equipped with armored vehicles and helicopter gunships, were assigned to supervise the country's border patrol and guard the political prisons. A particularly brutish department known...
Latvia has always had stronger ties to Moscow than have the other two republics. Latvian Riflemen made up the Kremlin's elite Praetorian Guard in the years after the Bolshevik Revolution, and party boss Arvid Pelshe became a fixture of the Brezhnev gerontocracy. Latvian First Secretary Janis Vagris, who gained his post last October when Boris Pugo was promoted to Moscow's Party Control Committee, is viewed by many as a compromise choice whose views on reform and political pluralism are acceptable to party conservatives...
Mohsen Rezai, 40. As commander of the Revolutionary Guards, the praetorian army of the regime, Rezai would play a key role if unrest broke out upon Khomeini's death. Even if the transition to a new government is peaceful, Rezai's military forces could make him a pivotal player...